Irrelevant.

Because I should be able to have a glass of wine with dinner when I dine out and drive home after wards. I completely disagree with your implied message that the average person is a hazard to themselves or others under conditions like these. Even considering the fact that you're driving a vehicle that's more dangerous to the operator then a car, 12 hours is just crazy unless you just got smashed the evening before.

Done it, I live in Sonoma County. Oakland still doesn't add up to 200 miles north by any sane measurement.

Awesome, so I'm looking at some kind of future map that defies what we know of current plate lines!? I was hoping something like this would be labeled with the locations of the human concentration camps so I could know where I will be living after the great robot revolution

The treatment in this case was so stupid it really seems as if the doctors were simply milking money out of some poor dying person. It's not as if this was a botched surgery or something. The problem here is that they charged a good deal of money selling snake oil.

Where is that line? How does a treatment cross that line from 'complete unknown' to 'experimental'? Is animal testing enough, or theoretical modeling, or what? And how would said regulation be enforced?

While I'm not qualified to draw the exact line I'm pretty sure injecting stem cells into completely stupid places on a person crosses the line from ethical medicine to unethical.

Right, not an expert but your several pages of thoughts should be heard and regulations based on that.

Pages of thought? I hope you're a non English speaker and got your wording mixed up. I wrote a couple of sentences.

The doctor might has just messed up, plain old malpractice. The doctor might have some animal testing that backed this treatment up, first human test just doesn't work; sucks but that happens and you would never hear about it if it happened in an accredited test in the states. Maybe the doctor played a hunch based on accumulated research, doctor blew it.

How on earth would some one with a medical degree make this mistake? It's like putting oil in the radiator.

Medical treatments are experimental. That's part of medicine. Years from now, a standard method of treatment will be seen as barbaric. Years after that someone will find a reason why it might be useful and how to better refine it. Along the way people will die. Medicine isn't magic, where sick people walk into a hospital and, if they get there in time, they walk out healthy. Regulation might cause fewer people to die as a result of experimental treatments but those regulations are why people are, right now, going over seas to get the treatments they think will work. Do you really want some agency to step in and tell you that you can not do research your self and decide if you want to take a risk?

I think it's safe for me to say that medically experimenting on humans at this level is considered appalling on a fairly universal level (yourself excluded of course).

I hate to sound callus, but the woman did live two years after the treatment. No mention if she was in pain from the treatment or not, or if the decline happened similarly to what she would have experienced without the treatment. Only that, at time of her death, the doctors found that the treatment had not helped her. Not that it killed her, not that it accelerated her death; at least that is what the linked article stated, I have no clue about the full paper.

Yes but if the stem cells were growing bits completely out of place from where they should be and disrupting proper organs with odd growths it seems to me that she lived two years (i>in spite of their bullshit medical practices.

I honestly just don't see how a person can not see this as at best obscene human experimentation and at worst profit mongering at the expense of human lives.

I just looked at the map for a second but why on earth is Oakland 200 miles North of San Francisco when the two cities are basically right next to each other?

Some regulation should still apply in instances like this. At some point these types of things cross the line from "experimental" to "taking advantage of some poor soul who'd dieing and will try anything".
For instance, from TFA

"However, the Thai clinic didn't inject the stem cells into the patient's blood stream, instead they injected them directly into her kidneys. That means the stem cells did nothing to stop the immune system's attack on the organs-and they instead produced never-before-seen side effects."

Now, I will freely admit that I don't have any medical expertise at all but this certainly sounds like snake oil to me. Her immune system is attacking her kidneys so they just pump her kidneys full of stem cells? Again, not an expert, but I could write several pages worth of thought as to why that doesn't seem to make any sense.

Much of this slide has taken place because of foreigners belligerently mucking about in the region. Afghanistan was a fair bit more liberal than the Taliban and even a bit prosperous prior to the Soviet invasion. Likewise, before the United States helped overthrow their government to install their own puppet, Iran wasn't doing too bad on these counts either. Both the Taliban and the Shaw rose to power in reaction to these events.

Your overuse of caps-lock precludes anyone from taking you seriously. I just thought I'd let you know for any future crazy rants...

Clearly you're baiting the question of "why?".

This is very worrisome given that it is coming from what is supposed to be the crossroads country between the west and the middle east. If a country like Turkey is engaging in acts like this, what hope does the rest of the Middle East have?

But we're talking about low fat mayo and healthier chips. You're running off on an extreme tangent where all of the fat is removed from everything. There's nothing wrong (in principle at least) with reducing the fat content in our fattiest foods so people can indulge in them more.

What are you talking about?

"For one thing, Britain has pennies, so it's pretty much a certainty that moaning GP is from the Eurozone, not from Britain."
"...and using strange currencies like "Pounds"...". I'm aware the poll is about pennies but my comment was directed at the parent comment, not the pole. I'm not talking about pennies in any way, shape, or form. Plus, his country of origin is irrelevant as my metaphorical situation is not directly related to him in that fashion.

"Furthermore, although officially 98% metricated, in reality, within many demographics and in many areas of life, Britain pays lip service at best to metric units, and use imperial measurements like the US."
They're officially metric for most things which is good enough for a joke in an internet forum about a completely non-scientific poll!

So, whilst I think GP is a tool (because I agree with this guy), all your attempt at swatting him down has really achieved is, ironically, to go a fair way towards making you look like a good example of the "Americans don't know shit about the rest of the world" stereotype.
A) I'm completely aware of all of the points you brought up so get off your high horse B) All these posts do is point out that there are people with giant sticks up their asses all over the world, not just in America. C) Assuming you're not American, I'd bet good money you'd rail on any American who entered a website based from whatever nation you are from and started whining about things being culturally centered around your own culture. That would be a very sensible reaction.

The parents post is just as great as a U.S. citizen traveling to a foreign country and demanding to know why everyone just can't speak "American".